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'''AEK Athens FC''' is the football club of the ''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupolis'', or in English the ''Athletic Union of Constantinople (AEK)''. The sports club was founded in April of [[1924]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]] following the expulsion of the Greek population of [[Turkey]] in [[1922]]. AEK presently plays at the OAKA Spyros Louis stadium in [[Maroussi]], a suburb of Athens.
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'''Chipman Airport''' is located 1.1 [[nautical mile]]s (2.04 km) north of [[Chipman, Alberta]]
The emblem of AEK is a two-headed black eagle on golden background, one head looking east (to [[Constantinople]] or New Rome), the other looking west (to [[Rome]]). This symbol was initially used by the [[Byzantine Empire]], and is still in use by the Greek Orthodox Church.
 
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The football section of AEK is one of the leading football clubs in Greece, having won 27 national titles (11 Championships, 13 Cups, 2 Super Cups, 1 League Cup) and participates in European competition ([[UEFA Cup]] semifinalists in the [[1976]]-[[1977|77]] season).
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The basketball section of AEK is also one of the leading clubs in Greece and the first Greek club ever to win an international title in all sports as it won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1968.
 
AEK's stadium is ''[[Nikos Goumas]]''. It was first opened in [[1930]]. Between [[1985]] and [[1987]], the capacity reaches as high as 36,766 spectators. A new stadium is yet to be planned. Nowdays capacity of the stadium is 24,729 (all seated).
 
Many of its players helped Greece win [[Euro 2004]]: [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Michalis Kapsis]], [[Vasilis Lakis]], [[Vasilis Tsiartas]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]] and [[Theodoros Zagorakis]]. Nikolaidis is now the chairman of the team - he retired as a footballer after Euro 2004.
 
The club survived serious financial problems lately, to the point where its very existence was threatened.
 
==Historic players==
 
*[[Thomas Mavros]]
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]
*[[Stelios Manolas]]
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]
 
==National titles==
===[[Greek Championship (Football/Soccer)|Championships]] (11x)===
 
[[1939]], [[1940]], [[1963]], [[1968]], [[1971]], [[1978]], [[1979]], [[1989]], [[1992]], [[1993]], [[1994]]
 
===[[Greek Cup (Football/Soccer)|Cups]] (15x)===
 
[[1932]], [[1938]], [[1939]], [[1949]], [[1950]], [[1956]], [[1964]], [[1966]], [[1967]], [[1978]], [[1983]], [[1996]], [[1997]], [[2000]], [[2002]]
 
===[[Greek Super Cup (Football/Soccer)|Super cups]] (2x)===
 
[[1989]] and [[1996]]
 
===[[Greek League Cup (Football/Soccer)|League Cup]] (1x)===
 
[[1990]]
 
==Internal link==
*[[Original 21|Original 21 Supporters Club]]
 
==External link==
*[http://www.aekfc.gr/ Official website]
*http://www.nzz.at/2003/08/12/sp/page-article90TE1.html (in German)
 
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